Planter.



No. 679,888. Paten'ted Aug. -6, |90I.

' J. M. COLEMAN;

PLAN'TER.

(Application led Jan. 18, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES MONROE COLEMAN, OF YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI.

PLANTER.

SFECIFJLCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,888, dated August6, 1901.

Application filed January 18, 1901.- Serial No. 43,750. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES MONROE COLE- MAN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Yazoo City, in the county of Yazoo and State ofMississippi, have invented new and useful Improvements in Planters, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates toimprovements in planters, and pertains moreparticularly to the class of cotton-planters in which there is auagitator in the hopper.

The object of my invention is to provide a planter in which the hopperis provided with an agitator in the bottom thereof which will absolutelyprevent the seed from chokingup the feed-opening, and thus producing acontinuous flow of seed through the opening to the drill.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a side view of my planter. Fig.2 is a top plan View. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken online l 1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4: is a transverse sectional view taken on line2 2, Fig. 2.

Referring now to the drawings, A represents the ordinary frame of aseed-planter, having mounted thereon a hopper B, which is also of theordinary type, having a curved bottom at, which is provided with anelongated longitudinally-extending opening a', through which the seed isfed to the drill C, which is therebelow and secured to the frame A inany desired manner. The rear end of the frame A is provided withV-shaped downwardly-extendingbrackets D, which are provided withjournals adapted to receive the ends of the shaft b of the traction ordraft wheel E, which has a concaved outer surface c. Said wheel is notonly used for supporting the planter, but for driving the agitator,which will be more fully described hereinafter.

Secured to the forward end of the frame Al on either side are handles F,which extend rearwardly on both sides of the hopper and have their rearends connected by a crossbar e. Braces G are secured to the extreme rearend of the frame and extend upwardly to the handles F and securedthereto. Pivotally connected between the rearwardly-extending bars f,forming part of the frame A,

is a scraper H, having its lower end rounded to [it the concavedperiphery c of the supporting-wheel E for the purpose of scraping themud therefrom. The upper end of the scraper has secured at right anglesthereto au upwardly-extending operating-lever I, which is adapted tothrow the scraper in or out of engagement with the Wheel.

The hopper is provided with a transversely- Varranged hollow shaft J,which extends through both sides of the hopper and is provided at itscenter within the hopper with down wardly-extending arms g, and oneither side of said arms are elongated slots 71, eX- tending abouthalf-way around the shaft. Situated within this hollow shaft J is asecond shaft K, which is provided with downwardlyextending arms t',which extend through the openings or slots h and are adapted tooscillate therein. The solid or inner shaft K at one-side extends beyondthe hollow shaft J and has secured thereto a crank m, and the hollow orouter shaft is provided on the opposite side outside of the hopper witha crank n, which is at au angle to the crank carried by the shaft J,whereby the teeth or agitators carried by the two shafts workindependent of each and are adapted to oscillate in opposite directionsduring the movement of the planter.

The shaft b of the wheel E carries at each end arms o and p, and set onan angle to correspond to the angles of the crank m and n, carried bythe hollow and solid shafts, and connecting the respective crankscarried by the wheel-shaft and the agitator-shafts are pi tmen L, whichin turn operate the agitators.

It will be readily understood that when the drive-wheel is in motion thepitmen will impart a reciprocating motion to the cranks carried by theagitators, and said cranks being at an angle to each other when theteeth carried by the hollow shaft are traveling forward the teethcarried by the solid shaft are traveling rearwardly, and vice versa. Byso constructing the teeth the seeds are more thoroughly agitated andprevent the choking of the feed-opening.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

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' l. In a planter, the combination withahop-V per, ofconcentrically-arranged shafts, centrally-arranged teeth carried by oneshaft and teeth carried by the second shaft on both sides of said teethand working in opposite directions to the centrally-located teeth,substantially as described.-

2. In a planter the combination With a hopper, of shafts arranged acrosssaid hopper one within the other, teeth carried by said shafts, andmeans carried on opposite ends of said shafts for oscillating the shaftsin opposite directions, substantially as described.

3. In a planter, the combination with a hopper, of a hollow shaft havingslots extending partially therearound, teeth carried by said shaft, ashaft within said shaft teeth carried by said shaft and projectingthrough the hollow shaft, and means for oscillating said shafts inopposite directions, substantially as described.

4. In a planter, the combination with a hopper, of a hollow shaftcarrying centrallylo= cated downwardly-projecting teeth and having anelongated slot on either side extending partially therearound, a solidshaft with= in the hollow shaft, teeth carried by said shaft andprojecting through the elongated opening and means for oscillating saidshafts in opposite directions, substantially as described.

5. A planter, comprising a frame, a hopper mounted thereon, a drivewheel mounted therein and carrying driving-cranks on either side, ahollow shaft extending transversely through the hopper and having slotsextending partially therearound, teeth carried by said shaft betweenksaid slots, a solid shaft within the hollow shaft and having teethprojecting through the slots, a crank on one side connected to thehollow shaft, a secon'd crank on the opposite side connected to thesolid shaft, and pitmen connecting said cranks with the drive cranks,substantially as described.

6. In a planter the combination with a hopper of shafts arranged acrosssaid hopper, one entirely within the other, teeth carried by said shaftsand cranks on opposite ends of the shafts for oscillating them inopposite di rections, substantially as described.

4In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

Y JAMES MONROE COLEMAN.

Witnesses: v

H. M. LOVE, T. F. DAVIS.

